Celebrity Baby Blog / Drew Barrymore

Over the weekend, the actress and her daughters Frankie, 2, and Olive, 3½, spent some quality time together in the great outdoors. On their agenda? Palling up with some animals, including turtles, horses and chickens.

“#labordayvibes #backwiththeturtles,” Barrymore, 41, sporting a wide-brimmed hat, captioned a selfie with one of the huge reptiles.

The 41-year-old actress stopped by Hamptons Magazine‘s annual Memorial Day Kick-Off party on Saturday without her little ones, much to the dismay of her two young daughters, Olive, 3, and 2-year-old Frankie, who missed out on a chance at seeing “Uncle Jimmy.”

Drew Barrymore and husband Will Kopelman may have decided to end their four-year marriage, but that doesn’t mean the family is completely fractured.

On Mother’s Day, Barrymore posted a cute Instagram photo showing her laughing outside with her daughter Frankie, 2, and her ex-mother in law Coco Kopelman. Her elder daughter Olive, 3, was not pictured.

“We don’t have any big plans or anything,” the actress told PEOPLE while hosting the Shutterfly Mother’s Day Event in Hollywood on Sunday. “I would like to start the day by ourselves, just me and the girls, vintage Tom and Jerry.”

Yes, a cat and mouse cartoon created in 1940 has become a staple in the Barrymore household, and has become something that Barrymore and daughters Frankie, 2, and Olive, 3, can enjoy together.

“They live for it!” the 41-year-old mother says, laughing. “There is a real oddity to the humor, it’s kind of deep and dark and weird.”

“I just feel like my whole life was collecting things in a butterfly net of experience,” she told reporters Sunday while attending Safe Kids Day 2016 at Smashbox Studios. “What to do, what not to do, how to live, how not to live, how to be free, happy. Just gaining every bit of wisdom that I could, all for that because I cannot remember life before kids. It seems like a dream.”

A dream that she is happily living each day with daughtersFrankie, 2, and Olive, 3, and one that is buoyed by the voices of other women that share her experience.

“I was saying this quote that a women said at a conference that I was at the other day,” the actress tells PEOPLE. “She said, ‘I can’t wait to go to work, and I can’t wait to get home.’ And I thought, that sums up a great womanhood to me.”